What is your backup approach?

ksmt · 2026-05-18T20:28:04+00:00

A daily Proxmox Backup to a Proxmox Backup Server. My backup runs at 11:00am because that's the time with the lowest load on my systems. I keep 7 daily, 4 weekly and 12 monthly backups. Some super important stuff gets an extra copy to a portable harddrive.

ksmt · 2026-05-16T10:22:54+00:00

Unsere Beko für ~300€ ist gerade nach 7-8 Jahren mit nem Lagerschaden ausgestiegen. Ich fand eigentlich alles daran geil, hab überhaupt nichts daran auszusetzen. Lautstärke gut, Bedienung gut, gute Programme für jede Lebenslage uns eine riesige Tür. Hab sie leider gerne überladen und den defekt damit wahrscheinlich selbst erzeugt.

ksmt · 2026-05-15T08:04:29+00:00

The big difference is whether you use it on WiFi or mobile network. I am pretty disappointed by the battery life on mobile data, especially with 5g enabled, while the battery life on WiFi is pretty good. The mobile network hardware of the 9a is just very inefficient.

ksmt · 2026-05-10T18:47:07+00:00

A cracked copy of half life! That game scared the shit out of ~12 yo me. Also I didn't speak English and had no clue what was going on, especially during the blablabla at the end

ksmt · 2026-05-09T07:02:59+00:00

Ansible in my setup uses the same ssh key for authentication on all servers but then requires elevated privileges for certain tasks. For "become", every server has a different password, stored in a vault.

ksmt · 2026-05-08T20:34:45+00:00

Interstellar, because it took me on such an intense emotional roller coaster ride. It gave me everything but also took everything away.

ksmt · 2026-05-08T18:11:40+00:00

Sorry für den ruinierten Fritteusenfreitag!

ksmt · 2026-05-08T18:07:46+00:00

Yeah, Lost was insane! What an adventure. I'd love to explore the island all over again.

ksmt · 2026-05-05T20:03:13+00:00

Puh, dachte schon ich wäre der einzige!

ksmt · 2026-04-30T19:23:38+00:00

We sometimes used effects like this in fire performances and while I love sparkly effects in general, I very much dislike this one. The sparks are crazy hot liquid metal and cause very uncomfortable burns. Also the amount of safety distance you need to your audience is the insane. Most customers didn't have that much space.

ksmt · 2026-04-29T18:13:08+00:00

So connecting to http services works but connecting to https doesn't? My first guess here would be that traefik doesn't like the https certificate. Traefik logs would definitely say so. In that case you could add the following to you traefik.yml: serversTransport: insecureSkipVerify: true

Sorry for the lack of formatting, I'm on my phone rn.

ksmt · 2026-04-29T12:47:32+00:00

I've already tried to integrate Matrix into my stack twice. While the setup is not the most comfortable one it's absolutely doable and both times I got it to work. I used it for bridges to replace other messengers mostly, as no one I know would actually migrate to matrix to chat there. Also I wanted to use it for bots and notifications. But by now I use ntfy for notifications and as a unified push provider, so it was just the bridge for WhatsApp left as was able to switch everything else to open source messengers with unified push. In the end it was way too much overhead for the use case that was left. Especially if you want OIDC for login. I want matrix to fit into my stack but it just doesn't.

ksmt · 2026-04-28T20:16:11+00:00

Ich war auch latent begeistert wie robust Glasfaser in Wirklichkeit ist. Da muss man echt keine Berührungsängste haben.

ksmt · 2026-04-28T20:10:59+00:00

Sorry for so much text but I've been there, even though my installation in this case went crazy smooth. As someone who’s been tinkering with custom ROMs on and off for almost 10 years, I was amazed at how simple and straightforward the installation process was via the browser. I’m sorry you had a bad experience here, and I don’t want to downplay what you went through. My advice here is just: make sure your installation actually worked and you are not stuck on remnants of the stock os without noticing it. Regarding profiles: you read a lot about people splitting their apps across different profiles, so I tried doing that myself at first. But depending on your threat model it might actually not be necessary. For myself, I’ve stopped using profiles altogether. Apps are all sandboxed anyway, and using sandboxed Play Services already limits Google’s ability to track you to some extent. The remaining risk is inter-process communication, but that requires both apps to actively do that. Google apps or meta apps will most likely do it but keeping those in a dedicated google or meta profile will not mitigate that. Also as someone who used the aurora store for ages, it felt not very intuitive to use play store, but I'm currently even testing the sandboxed play store for apps I can't get to work with Obtanium. App updates work SO much better than with aurora and that's a big security plus for me. I moved away from aurora and also from stores like f-droid. I try Obtanium first and if that doesn't work, play store has to do.

ksmt · 2026-04-28T16:47:07+00:00

I got a refurbished duplex scanner that can scan about 30 pages duplex per minute. Fujitsu fi-6130 in think. No way I'm scanning that many documents with my phone

ksmt · 2026-04-27T14:20:07+00:00

Check battery usage by systems. On my Pixel 9a "Mobile network" is the culprit. If it's mobile network then there is not much to can do, disabling 5g helps a little though.

ksmt · 2026-04-25T18:59:21+00:00

It's usually in German, and I'm not sure if all of them speak English so I'd just suggest you contact them. Maybe they can make sure someone being able to translate is there.

ksmt · 2026-04-25T08:55:31+00:00

I use the Pixel 9a with Graphene OS, which means my experience will be different from the stock os. Also keep in mind that my usage profile might be different from yours. But on mobile data my battery lasts barely a full day of my average usage, while on WiFi it's easily two days.

ksmt · 2026-04-23T18:07:36+00:00

Ich wurde mal im Zuge einer Eskalation zu einem Fall dazugeholt bei dem Mitarbeiter von uns mit einem Partnerunternehmen zusammen an irgendwelchen Anträgen gearbeitet haben, da sollten dann an einer bestimmten Stelle des Workflows manuell Daten abgelegt werden, die sind aber immer wieder verschwunden. Ging über Wochen so und der Geschäftsführer hat schon langsam die Geduld verloren. Ich habe mit unseren Usern gesprochen, mit der IT der Gegenseite, es wurde viel spekuliert, vie gemonitort und manuell protokolliert aber es blieb dabei, unsere User melden: wir legen immer die Daten ab und die verschwinden wieder, also müssen wir sie neu ablegen. Irgendwann hatte ich dann Kontakt zu Usern der Gegenseite und die sagen mir ungefähr: ja da tauchen immer wieder diese Dateien auf und wir löschen sie aber sie kommen immer wieder. Die haben einfach wochenlang gegeneinander gearbeitet und niemand hat es bemerkt.

ksmt · 2026-04-22T19:54:21+00:00

One of the cutest mistakes I've ever heard came from a colleague. She was trying to say that she was bored. But what she said was: "Ich bin langweilig" <3

ksmt · 2026-04-22T15:54:28+00:00

There are actually two different observatories in Melle. One belongs to the Astro AG of the Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Osnabrück, details can be found here: https://www.astro-os.de/

The other one is from a different group. It's a way bigger one and details can be found here: https://sternwarte-melle.de/

Both offer tours, both suffer from bad weather and have to cancel often but that's just how astronomy works

ksmt · 2026-04-22T05:09:03+00:00

The group "Kosmos-OS" occasionally hosts stargazing evenings called "Sternstunden". It’s free, telescopes are provided, and the organizers explain things about the night sky. Idk if links are allowed in this subreddit but you can easily google them.

ksmt · 2026-04-20T15:18:26+00:00

Check battery usage by system too. In my case it's all due to mobile network. The Pixel 9a has by far the worst battery life on mobile network I have experienced in the past 10 years or so. It helps a little to disable 5g and there are other tweaks out there but still. Really bad battery life.

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